2 papers
physics.class-ph2026
How much work can you get by removing weights from a piston?
Joshua Samani
In thermodynamics, reversible adiabatic expansion can be understood as a limit of stepwise irreversible processes. We make this idea concrete by studying an ideal gas in an insulat…
math.PR2025
An Exponential Concentration Inequality for the Components of a Uniform Random Vector on the Sphere
Joshua Samani
We show that if is a uniform random vector on the unit Euclidean sphere, the empirical CDF of the components of $\sqrt N \vec X = (\sqrt N X_1, \dots,…